RogueBeaver
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« on: September 04, 2011, 03:32:03 PM » |
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1948: Barkley helped, Warren was useless. 1952: Nixon helped for ideological, political and age balance. Sparkman was useless. 1956: See above, replace "Sparkman" with"Cowfever." 1960: Lodge was useless, LBJ's Southern coattails gave victory to JFK. 1964: HHH was effective as a barnburner and for regional balance. Miller was useless by Goldwater's own admission. 1968: Muskie was helpful, Agnew a drag. 1972: Eagleton was the worst VP disaster in modern times, even worse than Palin. Agnew was as useless as 4 years earlier, but irrelevant. 1976: Both were useful in terms of ideological and regional balance. In Ford's case, age balance as well. 1980: Bush was very useful, Mondale neutral. 1984: Bush useful again, Ferraro not so much. 1988: Bentsen overshadowed Dukakis, Quayle was a lightweight gaffe machine. 1992: Gore complemented Clinton, Quayle a disaster. 1996: Dual-neutral. 2000: Cheney helped Bush by providing ballast and DC experience, plus being the attack dog. Lieberman neutral- he helped retain centrists irked by Gore's conversion to populism but hurt with liberals. No net change. 2004: See above for Cheney. Edwards was to provide charisma and regional balance, but did neither. 2008: Biden was useful to Obama, Palin the worst disaster since Eagleton.
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